"Brooks, do see her off the premises before she changes her mind and comes for me again.

You have, I hope, been entertained, ladies," he added, turning to Sybil and Lady Caroom.
He eyed them carelessly enough to all appearance, yet with an inward searchingness which seemed to find what it feared.

He turned to Brooks, but he and Mary Scott had left the room together.
"The girl-was terribly in earnest," Lady Caroom said, with averted eyes.
"Were you not--a little cruel to her, Arranmore?
Not that I believe these horrid things, of course.

But she did.

She was honest." Lord Arranmore shrugged his shoulders.